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From: kifer@cs.sunysb.edu (Michael Kifer)
Cc: keichwa@gmx.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: ediff feature request: diffing line by line
Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2002 12:43:09 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200203161743.MAA02813@sbcs.cs.sunysb.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: "Carlo Traverso" of Sat, 16 Mar 2002 17:27:23 +0100 <20020316162723.0E28BB804@cardano.dm.unipi.it>

>>>>> "CT" == Carlo Traverso <of Sat, 16 Mar 2002 17:27:23 +0100> writes:

>>>>> "Karl" == Karl Eichwalder <ke@gnu.franken.de> writes:

    Karl> Let me forward this enhancement proposal:


    Karl> This basically means a diff is required that compares line
    Karl> by line and that allows to say "next word" from version A or
    Karl> "rest of line" from version B is wanted.

Ediff is designed to parse the output of diff and then present it in
different ways. What you are proposing is a kind of "incremental diff", if I
understand it correctly. I think it would require a major generalization of
the existing code to do that.

    CT> Another point concerns whitespace: the "ignore whitespace" mode should
    CT> consider equivalent any positive quantity of whitespace (including
    CT> line ends), but should not ignore the difference between existing and
    CT> non-existing whitespace. Currently ediff ignores spaces between word
    CT> and punctuation.

This is because punctuation is considered to be part of the word by
default. Somehow I feel this is more useful in general. However, you can
customize this.


	--michael  

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  reply	other threads:[~2002-03-16 17:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-03-16 13:54 ediff feature request: diffing line by line Karl Eichwalder
2002-03-16 16:27 ` Carlo Traverso
2002-03-16 17:43   ` Michael Kifer [this message]
2002-03-16 23:04     ` Alex Schroeder
2002-03-17  4:04       ` Karl Eichwalder
2002-03-17 15:40         ` Andreas Schwab
2002-03-17 16:26           ` Carlo Traverso
2002-03-17 18:37             ` Michael Kifer
2002-03-17 20:41               ` Carlo Traverso
2002-03-17 19:20 ` Richard Stallman

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